Alexa Skills Development

6 Steps3h 37m48 Credits

In this Quest, you will learn how to create Alexa skills that respond to voice commands and which can be used on the Amazon Echo, Dot, and Tap devices. You will create back-end functions in AWS Lambda, and then connect them with voice response logic using the Alexa Skills Kit. You will use both the AWS Console and the Amazon Developer Portal in these labs, the latter requiring you to have or create a no-cost, no-credit-card-required account. No hardware device is required for any lab; an Alexa voice response simulation system is provided in the Amazon Developer Portal.
Templates used in these labs can be adapted and extended to create your own Alexa skills and offer them to the worldwide Alexa user community.

Objectives

The labs in this Quest will teach you how to create working voice-response Alexa skills. You will learn how to create Lambda functions triggered by Alexa voice input, and then integrate these functions with invocations and utterances stored in the Amazon Developer Portal. You will learn how to leverage the Alexa Skills Kit templates provided in these labs to develop your own Alexa skills.

In this lab, you will create an example Alexa skill, then build an AWS Lambda Function in Node.js to execute the skill, and then test in the Amazon Developer Portal. The Developer Portal provides testing tools that work in a browser, so you do not need an Alexa device for this lab. Prerequisites: To successfully complete this lab, you should be familiar with AWS Lambda through taking the introductory lab. Node.js and JSON coding is needed, but full solution code is provided. You will need to have/create a no-cost, no-credit-card-required account in the Amazon Developer Portal. Familiarity with the Amazon Developer Portal and the Alexa Skills Kit is helpful, though not required.

In this lab, you will create an example Alexa skill. You will then use a blueprint to build an AWS Lambda Function to execute the skill. You will use both the AWS Console and the Amazon Developer Portal in this lab. You will test your function in the Lambda console by sending it JSON requests, and you will test your example skill in the Amazon Developer Portal. You do not need an Alexa device for this lab. The Developer Portal provides testing tools that work in a browser. Prerequisites: To successfully complete this lab, you should be familiar with AWS Lambda through taking the introductory lab. Python and JSON programming are required, although full solution code is provided. You will need to have/create a no-cost, no-credit-card-required account in the Amazon Developer Portal. Familiarity with the Amazon Developer Portal and the Alexa Skills Kit is helpful, though not required. You do not need an Alexa device for this lab.

In this lab, you will build a web service to handle notifications from Alexa and map this service to a Skill in the Amazon Developer Portal. You will create a Trivia skill using sample code for this lab, which you can use as a template for your own skill after completing the lab. You can make this skill available on your device and to all Alexa users after certification. You will use both the AWS Console and the Amazon Developer Portal in this lab. Prerequisites: To successfully complete this lab, you should be familiar with AWS Lambda through taking the "Introduction to Lambda" lab. Familiarity with Node.js programming will be helpful, although full solution code is provided. You will need to have/create a no-cost, no-credit-card-required account in the Amazon Developer Portal. Familiarity with the Amazon Developer Portal and the Alexa Skills Kit is helpful, though not required. You do not need an Alexa device for this lab.

In this lab, you will build a web service to handle requests from Alexa and then connect this service to a Flashcard Skill you will build in the Amazon Developer Portal. The Flashcard skill will be built using sample code, which you can use as a template for your own skill after completing the lab. You can make this skill available on your device and to all Alexa users after certification. You will use both the AWS Console and the Amazon Developer Portal in this lab. Prerequisites: To successfully complete this lab, you should be familiar with AWS Lambda through taking the "Introduction to Lambda" lab. Familiarity with Node.js programming will be helpful, although full solution code is provided. You will need to have/create a no-cost, no-credit-card-required account in the Amazon Developer Portal. Familiarity with the Amazon Developer Portal and the Alexa Skills Kit is helpful, though not required. You do not need an Alexa device for this lab.

In this lab, you will build a web service to handle notifications from Alexa and map this service to a skill in the Amazon Developer Portal. You will create a Decision Tree skill using sample code for this lab, which you can use as a template for your own skill after completing the lab. You can make this skill available on your device and to all Alexa users after certification. You will use both the AWS Console and the Amazon Developer Portal in this lab. You do not need an Alexa device. The Developer Portal provides testing tools that work in a browser. Prerequisites: To successfully complete this lab, you should be familiar with AWS Lambda through taking the introductory lab. Node.js and JSON programming are required, although full solution code is provided. You will need to have/create a no-cost, no-credit-card-required account in the Amazon Developer Portal. Familiarity with the Amazon Developer Portal and the Alexa Skills Kit is helpful, though not required.